Tag: Colony Collapse Disorder
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Why 'Kill it with Fire' Should Not be Your Reaction to a Honeybee Swarm
It's not a bee attack -- it's just a bee swarm. Here are tips on how to deal with one.
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Organic Beekeeping for Beginners: Which Hive is Best?
An introduction to organic beekeeping, including a demonstration of a rather unusual hive.
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Man Relocates 30,000 Bees Found Living in an Attic
Up until recently, Victoria Clayton and her boyfriend were under the impression that they were the only ones sharing their charming home in Cape May, New Jersey -- but they couldn't bee more wrong.
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Honeybees Self-Medicate With Anti-Fungal Resins When Under Threat
A new study reveals just how sophisticated honeybees' self-defence mechanisms are, and casts doubt on human efforts to control them.
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Pesticides and High Fructose Corn Syrup Recreate "Classic" Colony Collapse Disorder in Experiments
The evidence keeps piling up that neonicotinoid pesticides are contributing to Colony Collapse Disorder. It turns out that high fructose corn syrup may play a part too.
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Two New Studies Show Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees
As evidence mounts that neonicotinoid pesticides are harmful to bees, the denials from Bayer CropSciences just keep on coming,
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Insecticide Maker Continues Charm Offensive on Beekeepers
Bayer CropScience is sending out its experts to talk to beekeeping communities. At least one beekeeper was decidedly unimpressed.
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Incredible Video Shows the Beauty of Urban Beekeeping
The Made By Hand video series returns with a stunning portrait of a Brooklyn beekeeping pioneer.
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Maker of Controversial Insecticide Launches "Bee Care Centers". Should We Celebrate?
BayerCrop Science launches a "bee care program" to promote honeybee health. Strangely, it's press release says nothing about neonicotinoids.
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More Evidence That Insecticides Are Harming Our Bees
New research shows that minute doses of widely used pesticide can leave bees vulnerable to infection.
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Petition to Ban Bee Death-Linked Pesticides Gathers 1.2 Million Signatures
As evidence mounds that a certain class of pesticides is contributing to bee deaths, over a million citizens push for a global ban.
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Ask Pablo: What Is The Greenest Booze?
Ask Pablo answers: What's the greenest kind of booze we can drink this holiday season?
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Another Food Industry Brand Rallies to Save Bees
Business giving, and even campaigning, is nothing new. But it has been heartening to see how many food industry brands have rallied around the plight of the honeybees to develop serious, substantial responses—from Haagen
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Architects to Redesign Beehive for Urban Bees
From Omlet's trendy Beehaus urban hive, to more traditional alternatives like top-bar and Warré hives, every now and then we see alternatives to the conventional beehives used by most professionals
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Teaching Beekeeping to Children Improves Behavior
When I wrote about beekeeping with children for our sister site Parentables, I noted that bees can be a fantastic tool for encouraging emotional literacy. For the same reason that beekeeping is great for those with felony
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Backwards Beekeepers, Black Sabbath, and How to Capture a Swarm (Video)
Whether it's a "tough love" beekeepers' focus on survivor genes, or a renewed interest in top-bar hives, Warré hives and other beekeeping alternatives, there are plenty of folks out there who believe that the
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Give Your Phone a "Bee Beard", Help Save Bees (Video)
I grew up in the West of England. I like hard cider. And as a failed beekeeper, I owe a deabt of gratitude (or guilt?) to our furry pollinating friends. So I was delighted to hear that one purveyor of hard cider is
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Beekeeping Replaces Opium Farming in Afghanistan (Video)
I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone wear a flak jacket into a bee yard before.
